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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first pressure of Americans that keeps them from acting courageously according to Kennedy?
(a) The need to be different from other politicians.
(b) The need to be well liked.
(c) The need to raise campaign money.
(d) The need to be right all the time.

2. In PROFILES IN COURAGE, what does John F. Kennedy fear the American public has forgotten?
(a) Where to look for courage in a politician.
(b) How to tell if a man is honest.
(c) What courage actually is.
(d) The basic principles our country was founded on.

3. In terms of service in office of both father and son, what similarity set them apart from presidents before and after them?
(a) Both father and son served during wartime.
(b) Both father and son served three terms in office.
(c) Neither father nor son served a second term in office.
(d) Neither father nor son served out a full term in office.

4. Whom did the Adams family say that the magistrate must serve?
(a) His party.
(b) His god.
(c) His people.
(d) His family.

5. For what prestigious university did Adams once work as a professor?
(a) Yale.
(b) Dartmouth.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Harvard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following public offices did John Quincey Adams NOT hold?

2. John Quincey Adams' mother was fond of saying John had been groomed to do what?

3. Who was the first son of a former president to become president of the U.S.?

4. What does Kennedy suggest prevents a lot of people from acting courageously?

5. What advantage do minority special interest groups have to influence elected officials?

(see the answer key)

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